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Week Two Summary

Bell, D (2001) Storying cyberspace 1: material and symbolic stories, chapter 2 of An introduction to cybercultures
Bell defines cyberspace in terms of storytelling. He categorizes it as threefold: material stories, symbolic stories and experiential ones.
Under material stories he includes the history of computing, the development of the internet and the world wide web and virtual [...]

Week One Summary

Hand, Martin:  ‘Hardware to everywhere: Narratives of promise and threat‘

I think that the overriding issues are inherent in the questions:

To what extent is the cyberworld our master or servant?
Are we in a panoptican prison and to what extent is it of our own making?

He makes us aware of where the power lies, namely [...]